Yes you got it! BMC and police collect haftas from all shops - legal or illegal roadside stalls. This has been going on much before plastic ban. All this collection flows upwards to all in BMC and the lion's share goes to the local corporators and ultimately a part of it to party head honcho!

Every police station chief officer (SHO) is given a target, and so are ward officers in BMC. Its a well oiled machinery. Sad, but true

All of this is well documented in the Marathi movie, "Zhenda"... an internal story on the Thackeray cousins.

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